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In this paper, we have made a report on the test observations with a Multi-Channel Solar Telescope (MCST), which consists of 60 cm Nine-Channel Solar Telescope (NCST), 35 cm Solar Magnetic Field Telescope (SMFT), 8 cm Full Disc Telescope (FDT), 10 cm Full Disc Magnetic Field Telescope (FDMFT) and 14 cm Hα telescope. These observations demonstrate that the MCST has the following advantages: (a) It can work at more than nine visible spectral lines simultaneously. In this way, different solar layers of the photosphere and chromosphere can be observed at the same time; (b) every channel of the NCST is entirely equivalent to a videomagnetograph, by means of which the vector magnetic fields and line-of-sight velocity fields can be measured; (c) real-time monochromatic images of the photosphere and chromosphere can be obtained with the FDT, FDMFT, and Hα Telescope; (d) high-temporal-resolution full-disk magnetic fields can be measured with the FDMFT; (e) spectral profiles over a large field of view can be scanned with the NCST.
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Yuanyong, D., Guoxiang, A., Jingshan, W. et al. Reports on Test Observations with the Multi-Channel Solar Telescope. Solar Physics 173, 207–221 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004960617982
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